#story

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#end #end product #every #generation #history

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history. ↗

— William Banting

#become #bodily #history #matters #mere

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #enough #good #greatest #illusion

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#i #i see #only #people #see

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#breaking #character #dad #down #i

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#history repeats itself #itself #repeats #things #wrong

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#history #model #mother #picture #rest

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#hero #just #look #own #story

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#history #illuminates #interests #only #past